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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977042 issues Winnipeg free press a 7 May allow immigrants to help Economy i fully support Praag nails views free May 15 re Garding the unreasonably High fee and sponsorship Bond now required for immigrants and refugees coming to this increase puts unfair Cash demands on people who can least afford i am one of Many immigrants who came to Canada with Hope for a bet Ter i paid All expenses to cover my medical tests and plane and i brought enough Money to cover my living in this new and difficult i did not look for the government to help i Only asked for the privilege of being a Ca Nadian As did immigrants be fore the Assumption made by the Gen eral Public that immigrants Are rivals in the Job Market is we take Only the jobs that others do not we work for a mini mum though Many of us have a High which is not recognized in All immigrants have to Start their lives and i can assure you it is not an easy there Are no special handouts for we work hard to receive our Edu cation we Are also opening new Small businesses that create jobs for immigrants Are building up the country Brick by now that the economic situation has become All people Liv ing in this country should work to think about improvements rather than laying Stop focusing on who is who is an immigrant or who is a now is not the time to make living More difficult than it is and blame someone else for this allow immigrants and refugees to come to Manitoba and help it could be the solution for a better to Ewa Zalewska Winnipeg War music marvellous we had the pleasure of listening to the music and reminiscences from second world War years on the temporary radio Sta operating from the Deer Lodge i should like to express my thanks to All concerned in this be plus 50 Endeavor Jack Cliff Gar Bob George my Lee to name but a it was marvellous to hear this style of music once As it is something we Are Seldom Able to hear in this with the apparent Success of this possibly some other station could pick up on the idea for a two or three hour pro Gram once a week to keep this music and the voices of the past alive in our it would be a pleasant change from the musical styles normally played on our radio an other advantage is that at least the vocal renditions Are understand quite unlike the garbled sounds we hear in today Arthur Winnipeg stains victims ignored again this Russia marked veday along with the rest of the rus Sia celebrated by displaying its Mili tary might in red the Dis play was a warning to russian Satel Lites and breakaway a Way to make them shake in their boots and remember Russia lost 25 million people in the second world and that is a substantial but during stains the state liquidated 20 million of its own including those deported to there was no official mourning for Stephen Bihun Winnipeg a vote in favor of a fair ballot first past the Post this is the phrase often used to describe the Way our form of the democratic pro Cess determines a winning Candi Date at election but is this the Best Way to form our provincial and Federal this method of balloting works Only in a two candidate when there Are three names on the one can be declared elected with As few As 34 per cent of the mean ing 66 per cent of the voters will not have their priorities represented by their la or we need not look far to find exam Ples of the Way our system of voting both distorts the True feelings of the and allows the governing party to take a province or nation in a direction the majority of its Citi do not want it to letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address tetters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone in the 1988 Federal More canadians voted against free Trade than for but the ant free Trade vote split and the tories won a a this result gave us the free Trade agreement which altered the course of our nation in a Way we might not in our recent provincial Only 37 of 57 winners won with More than 50 per cent of the the system creates such Anoma lies As the plight of the hapless lib who received per cent of the popular vote but hold Only five per cent of the seats in the Legisla Only the United Australia and new zealand retain this inequitable method of choosing their preferential Multi bal lots and Runoff elections Are just a few of the More effective methods used in other proportional representation systems exist which better reflect the popular it is time for Reform of our sys As the impetus is unlikely to come from a government which has won Victory in the present pressure will have to begin with individuals committed to finding a better Winnipeg Veteran Speaks from experience this is for Kay whose let armed forces deserve Gratis appeared she wondered where Alec Herbert was on be Day and on he was a Corporal in the British army and spent most of the Day in a ditch in on he was a staff sergeant in in afraid Kay Kihn misread my there has been no More consistent or vociferous supporter of the armed forces than i in these col Alec Herbert Winnipeg socialize privatize profits there Are still some people around who use the expression free Enterprise and profess to be Lieve captains of Industry tout free Enterprise until their businesses need government they like to socialize their losses while privatizing their True free enter prise is As dead As True Inge Heck Winnipeg salary Cap could save u i am commenting on the article by Lee Stuesser mandatory retirement key to University free May instead of age segregation excluding judges and who can decree and pontificate until other solutions could be found to solve those the most obvious one would be the establishment of a salary this could have saved the jets and could help universities and Many other if a salary Cap of for full professors was in the u of m would save some a salary Cap of for administrators would save at least another salary Cap could be imposed on salaries and Honor aria paid to full time profs As consultants or a practice for Law pro Clin ical psychologists and Many these jobs would then be done by other qualified Fern and Girard professor of anthropology Winnipeg free press file photo free press file pc Hammarskjold developed the role of activist he had several triumphs but paid a heavy political no Secretary general has been a Dud better selection process needed for uns top Job by Brian Urquhart foreign affairs Magazine Dag Hammarskjold once said the in Secretary general was a sort of secular Pope for much of the a Pope without a u a courageous and modest said the Secretary generalship was the most most interesting and most challenging political Job on to Kurt Waldheim it was at the same time one of the most fascinating arid one of the most frustrating jobs in the encompassing As it does the height of human aspiration and the depth of human impossible Job the at least on is indeed an impossible quite apart from unrealistic Public Large responsibilities without significant Power or and the contrary attitudes of the Job comprises an unmanageable number of major the Secretary general is an International civil servant with 185 masters who is also periodically especially when everyone else has to be a the main factors in the development of the office of Secretary general have been the incumbents personalities and the political climate in which they with the Genius of the activist role of the Secretary general after failing to agree on a score of other the Security Council in Early 1953 appointed Hammarskjold under the misapprehension that he was a nonpolitical Hammarskjold soon showed his in his first during one of the cold wars More dangerous he secured the release from China of 17 airmen who were taken prisoner in the korean he subsequently developed the Secretary generals negotiating As Well As the concept of Fielding in peacekeeping first deployed on a Large scale in the Suez crisis of Hammarskjold paid a heavy Price for his he fell out of favor with the United states Over Guatemala in and with the French and the British Over the Suez operation in in the Congo he infuriated both the soviets and the alienating president Charles de Gaulle for Good by his actions when the French clashed with newly Independent Tunisia Over free pres file photo Boutros Ghali inherited problems of Post cold War his fatal demand for a withdrawal of in u thanks Kurt and his Max Jakobsen of were the first candidates to Campaign actively for the setting a disastrous precedent that has been followed Ever since that self appointed candidates have lobbied for the confusing and monopolizing the already feeble efforts of the Security Council to recommend a suitable candidate to the general Waldheim was neither a inspiring Leader nor an original but he maintained stability throughout the he reestablished peacekeeping As an indispensable diplomatic in tool after the 1973 Middle East after Waldheim left the United it was discovered that he had misrepresented his War and he became the subject of Universal opprobrium in the it would have been perfectly possible to verify Waldheim War record before he was appointed but nobody but for chivas Waldheim would have been elected to a third term with the Active support of the United the United kingdom and the soviet the whole Waldheim episode Speaks volumes about the Quality and spirit of the appointment open search no vetting of and a list virtually Hammarskjold believed that the integrity and activism of the Secretary general and the International secretariat were vital to the future of the United Hammarskjold death in Africa in september 1961 left the United nations split on cold War his u picked up the pieces and reunited the of All the he has been the most unjustly this is perhaps not too in u thanks moral issues overrode political he was a person of great honesty and but was not always appreciated in the cynical world of global he brought the in involvement in the Congo to an he played an important role in resolving the cuban missile he was also instrumental in securing a ceasefire in the ominous War Between India and Pakistan in on his own he made a prolonged and spirited Effort to bring the Vietnam War to an but the collapse of the in peacekeeping Force in the Middle East in 1967 and the ensuing six Day War overshadowed All the positive achievements of his he served As a convenient Scapegoat on that although he was the Only world Leader to go to Cairo to try to persuade egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser to reconsider to restricted to those who have declared in such it is something of a Miracle that the United nations has been As Well served As it Waldheim Javier Perez de was a quiet and experienced Diplomat who presided skilfully Over the transition into the uncertainties of the Post cold War he kept on Good terms with All governments and was a Well liked but not striking International his strongest suit was quiet which by definition does not gain Public acclaim or recognition for its after years of he enjoyed considerable Success in the Short lived and illusory Renaissance of the United nations in the Early the present Boutros has inherited the morning after hangover from that false Renaissance and the difficult problems of policing the tumult of the Post cold War like his he is criticized for being both too activist and too compounding his he has also been obliged to reorganize the secretariat when the organization is More heavily involved than Ever in Field the inclination of in members appears to be a continuation of and hoc crisis which is often too late and sometimes ineffective and a crisis of credibility has it remains to be seen whether in members have any interest in improving the selection process for the the process thus far has produced no outright but it would be rejected As a bad joke by any serious institution in the private it requires neither a search procedure nor an interview with the at a the Security Council and the general Assembly should define the essential qualifications necessary in determining the Best person for the authority and leadership rather than political must take priority if the United nations is to shoulder its increasingly vital responsibilities and make the necessary transition to a very different world in the 21st Brian Urquhart is Schiari residence at the Ford his most recent Book is Ralph Bunche an american this article is adapted from the Issue of foreign it is distributed by new Fork times special f ;